Pest Control Community

American Pest Launches Industrial Strength Bug Blog

Company-wide effort aimed at helping Northern Virginia, D.C. and Maryland nieghborhoods

Takoma Park, MD - March, 7, 2007 - American Pest Management, the oldest local pest control management firm serving homeowners, commercial properties and government buildings including The White House, today announced that it has launched a company-wide blog initiative that will focus on pest control issues - http://www.americanpestmanagement.com.

American Pest Management’s blog - Pest Control Community - will include 20 different authors including five staff entomologists who will share tips and techniques on how to control pesky pests as well as alerts on local neighborhood bug outbreaks and how to control them. American Pest will also use the blog to track the forecasted elimination of One Billion Bugs this pest control season.

“American Pest Management’s blog is a fantastic example of a local company that is using online publishing tools as a credible and relevant conversation vehicle to help the communities we serve to find information and to better understand our customers,” said American Pest Management CEO Matt Nixon. “Listening to our customers is the most important aspect of our business, and our company is embracing blogging as a competitive strategy to gain insights, opinions and feedback from the community we’ve served since 1925.”

The Pest Control Community blog will also include video clips from the field and images of various pests from termites and carpenter ants to hornets and bed bugs so that individuals can quickly identify pests as well as submit their own photographs that will be profiled on the blog. Learn more about bugs and blog at americanpestmanagement.com.

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